Spoiler Alert: 'Sharknado' and the latest twist in social media marketing

8:04 PM,
Jul. 18, 2013

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Todd Hill
News Journal

If you're on social media - Twitter and Facebook, for those of you who aren't - you already know all about "Sharknado."

The Syfy movie concerning a shark-filled tornado, which debuted on the cable channel last week, is gloriously awful, as can probably go without saying. It's one of those deliberate "so bad it's good" flicks of which the Syfy channel, formerly the Sci-Fi Channel, has made hundreds over the past 10 years or so.

But I'm not sure which was funnier - "Sharknado," the movie, or #Sharknado, the tweets. Here were three of the best: ...